Member Articles

Enjoy our extensive collection of member-contributed articles to learn how other Scrum practitioners use Scrum in the workplace.

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Based on my experiences with various coaching models and with coaching multiple teams and individuals in large-scale Agile transformations, I have created a coaching model for use with both individuals and teams.

While reading about Agile and Scrum, we run across business value terms such as ROI, NPV, and IRR, but these concepts are usually treated theoretically, not quantitatively. Here I provide a few methods by which business value is calculated.

When I graduated from college and landed my first "real job," I expected to be empowered, to make a difference, and to contribute to the greater good of the company. The real world was a rude awakening.

We have all been in a retrospective or planning session in which some members sit back and take little or no part in the proceedings. If this sounds familiar, then your team may not be participating effectively.

When our company decided to pursue the ISO 9001:2015 (latest version) certification, I worried about parts of the process. However, I discovered that it went hand in hand with how we work as an Agile team. Here's what we learned.

"Doing Agile" is now common; organizations and their teams are doing it day in, day out. However, "being Agile" is tough, so it's advisable for organizations to form a group or a more formal entity, such as an Agile Center of Excellence (COE).

Business Intelligence (BI) environments are becoming increasingly complex, and those developing BI systems are frazzled due to poor data quality, continuously changing requirements, and emerging technologies. Agile, and the right user stories, can help.